Last July, we posted about North Carolina’s oldest shipwreck which was moved to the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum for preservation. Now the curators at the museum are trying to learn,as quickly as possible, how to preserve the crumbling wreck. Experts race the clock to preserve N.C. shipwreck After enduring some 400 years buried [...]
An update to a post from last week: A backlog of close to 400 ships is still bottled up on the Rhine River following the capsizing of the 110M chemical tank barge, Waldhof, on January 13th near the Lorelei Rock. The Waldhof is carrying 2,400 tonnes of sulfuric acid. Hundreds of ships stuck as Rhine [...]
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By Jeff Hampton - The Virginian-Pilot
After enduring some 400 years buried beneath the Corolla surf, the oldest shipwreck yet found in North Carolina sits on concrete drying and cracking in the Outer Banks elements. Experts are scrambling to figure out how best to save it: Submerge it in regular baths, soak it for years in a substance also used in antifreeze, coat it in sugar water, saturate it with an expensive silicone oil or freeze-dry it. Or maybe some combination.“I’m...
By im Abbott - un-sentinel
In 1668, Jamaican-based pirate Robert Searle captured a Spanish ship and sailed into St. Augustine for a raid that inspired the Spanish to build the massive fort that now sits across the street from the museum.Inside the relatively compact but attractive attraction, there's more than a nod to that history. In the Rogue's Tavern, visitors can gander at the stories of a dozen famous pirates in one of eight electronic books stationed at a heavy wooden table...
By Jeremy Taylor - FT
Standing on the bridge of the USS Kittiwake, I turn the helmsman’ wheel, check the navigator’ compass and imagine I’ steering a course across the ocean. But the crew has long since jumped ship and the engines are dead.Earlier this month, the Kittiwake sank close to the coast of the Cayman Islands, not as a result of a storm or an accident, but in a controlled, deliberate operation masterminded by the islands’tourism authorities.
They had spotted...
The great challenge of ship preservation in these times always seems to be largely financial. SS Shieldhall, the UK’s “2009 Flagship of National Historic Ships” is in danger of scrapping unless funds can be raised to complete and upcoming drydocking. Historic steamship SS Shieldhall needs £80,000 to keep sailing One of the UK’ss most important historic [...]
The skeleton of a guard dog buried 2,000 years ago to guard a horde of coins has been found in England. Archaeologists have pieced together the remains of a 2,000-year-old guard dog whose spirit is believed to have protected a hoard of treasure. The skeleton, which is about the same size as that of a [...]
By Wayne Ayers - Tampa Bay Newspapers
Claims by a local treasure hunter that there is a century-old shipwreck off our shores got a boost from a former diver in the area.“I’e seen that wreck,” said Joe Mecko, of Madeira Beach, after reading a story on the subject in the Beach Beacon.The article told about Jim Leatherwood’ discovery of shipwreck artifacts while metal detecting on the beach in Indian Rocks Beach and Indian Shores. Leatherwood said he believed his finds...
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By Mitchell Smyth - Toronto Sun
The little heritage museum in this Alabama gulf coast community of 675 souls houses all the things you'd expect. There are vintage farm implements, old-time dresses, Victorian kitchen utensils, tools, a blacksmith's forge, a Victrola phonograph, etc. But there is also something else, something you would never expect in a small-town museum: Artifacts from a multi-million dollar treasure trove recovered from a shipwreck out in...
By Colin Nickerson - Boston
The archeological digs at Egypt’ Wadi Gawasis have yielded neither mummies nor grand monuments.
But Boston University archeologist Kathryn Bard and her colleagues are uncovering the oldest remnants of seagoing ships and other relics linked to exotic trade with a mysterious Red Sea realm called Punt.“They were the space launches of their time,’rsquo; Bard said of the epic missions to procure wondrous wares.Although Nile River craft are well-known,...
One of the biggest episodes of mass extinction may have been caused 250 million years ago because of toxic ash resulting from burning coal. In the current Nature Geoscience, a team led by Stephen Grasby of the Geological Survey of Canada—Calgary, report evidence the eruption of the Siberian volcanoes torched massive coal beds, leaving behind [...]
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Divers have described their discovery of a WWI German U-boat that historians believe was destroyed in 1919.All 27 crew on board the UC42 died when the submarine sank at the entrance to Cork Harbour on 10 September 1917.It had been laying mines when an explosion was heard.A team of five amateur divers from Cork discovered the submarine in good condition in 27m of water just off Roches Point on 6 November after a 12-month search.Diver Ian Kelleher said they were very surprised...
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Their excitement rang through every word. hey had found a ship's bell, one of the most rare discoveries off the coast. ivers from LAMP at the St. Augustine Lighthouse were on a routine site check of a shipwreck when Dr. Sam Turner saw what he described as a "horizontal shadow." "And it was a bell," said Dr. Turner. "There was no mistaking it. I mean, there was stuff encrusted onto it, but it was very clearly a bell." Employees with LAMP said only two bells have...
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By Jeremy Lee - ABC South West Victoria
Peter Ronald loves diving. His face lights up when he talks about the sensation of flying and the joy of discovery and exploration in the underwater world, and the results of his exploring have been on display in Warrnambool for many years now.Born in Terang, Peter came from a great swimming family - his dad taught him (and most of Terang) to swim which led to snorkling and spearfishing, along with a great familiarity with the local coastline...
By Eddy Raphael - Bahamas Islands Info
For centuries, the world has had a fascination with shipwrecks and buried treasure. To this day, undiscovered artifacts and preserved relics of the past hide in the deep reluctantly awaiting the moment where they will be rediscovered by mankind.
When the dive team at Bahamas Dive shop UNEXSO (Underwater Explorers Society) goes diving, there is always a hope of seeing that extraordinary ‘omething’to remember the dive by; a true ‘ne...
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As an acknowledgement to her 30-year trajectory, devoted to research and preservation of the submerged cultural heritage, archaeologist Pilar Luna Erreguerena, pioneer of Underwater Archaeology in Mexico, was awarded with the J.C. Harrington Award by the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA), becoming the first Latin American researcher -and the 4th woman- to receive this prize. The award given every year...
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By Hunter Hardinge and Derek Legette -The Daily Gamecock
C.S.S PeeDee rediscovered during search for lost shipyard Almost 150 years after the C.S.S. Peedee was blown to smithereens, USC professors and students recently uncovered the Confederate boat near Charleston.Found in its namesake river, the C.S.S. Peedee was blown to pieces by Confederate troops in 1865 to keep Union troops from capturing the boat.“We knew the ship was there when we found a tree...
By Jennifer Cordingley - Click Liverpool
Two bottles of whisky recovered from a shipwreck 70 years ago has gone on display at Liverpool's Maritime Museum.The scotch was salvaged from the doomed cargo ship, The SS Politician, which ran aground off the west coast of Scotland on 5th February 1941.The ship, which had 28,000 cases of malt whisky aboard, had been bound for Jamaica and America.Looters were punished by Customs and Excise for stealing the duty free drink which was a rationed wartime luxury.The...
By Gamini Mahadura - Daily Mirror
A collection of silver coins discovered from a wreckage of a ship that had sunk in the sea off the Great Basses reef (Maha Ravana) off Kirinda on the Southern coast about 310 years ago is now on display at the Galle Marine Archaeology Museum. The conservator of artifacts said many of the coins had been damaged and discoloured. According to history, the ill-fated ship had been carrying a consignment of silver coins from Surat in the north western coast of India...
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By Wallace McKelvey - USA Today
For Don Shomette, coastal waterways in the Delaware, Maryland and Virginia region offer a treasure trove of history beneath the waves."In the Chesapeake, there are a total of eight sunken fleets," he said. "It's the most fought-over body of water in the Western Hemisphere."The Delaware Bay is a close second, Shomette said.Now, at least part of that history is being told in a map of the Shipwrecks of Delmarva, commissioned by National...